Final

Question 1

It is no tale; but you should think

Perhaps a tale you’ll make it

Answer 1

Wordsworth

Question 2

Piper sit thee down and write

In a book that all may read–

Answer 2

Blake

Question 3

In a careless mood he looked at me,

While still I held him by the arm

Answer 3

Wordsworth

Question 4

Expatiate free o’er all this scene of man;

A mighty maze! but not without a plan;

Answer 4

Pope

Question 5

Alone, alone, all all alone

Alone on the wide, wide Sea;

Answer 5

Coleridge

Question 6

In every voice; in every ban,

The mind-forg’d manacles I hear

Answer 6

Blake

Question 7

Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things;
– We murder to dissect

Answer 7

Wordsworth

Question 8

Let Observation, with extensive view,

Survey mankind, from China to Peru;

Answer 8

Johnson

Question 9

“If two are in the church-yard laid,

“Then ye are only five.”

Answer 9

Wordsworth

Question 10

The hum of multitudes was there but multitudes of lambs

Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands

Answer 10

Blake

Question 11

One truth is clear:

Whatever IS, is RIGHT.

Answer 11

Pope

Question 12

A sadder and a wiser man

He rose the morrow morn.

Answer 12

Coleridge

Question 13

And I must think, do all I can,

That there was pleasure there.

Answer 13

Wordsworth

Question 14

Little Lamb who made thee

Dost thou know who made thee

Answer 14

Blake

Question 15

Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest

Some Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood.

Answer 15

Grey

Question 16

Is this a holy thing to see,

In a rich and fruitful land,

Answer 16

Blake

Question 17

Five years have passed;

Answer 17

Wordsworth

Question 18

Such was the scorn that filled the Sage’s mind,

Renewed at ev’ry glance on humankind

Answer 18

Johnson

Question 19

I cannot tell; I wish I could;

For the true reason no one knows,

Answer 19

Wordsworth

Question 20

Tho’ the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm.

So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.

Answer 20

Blake

Question 21

Say first, of God above, or man below,

What can we reason, but from what we know?

Answer 21

Pope

Question 22

What the hammer? what the chain,

In what furnace was thy brain?

Answer 22

Blake

Question 23

The hermit sits alone.

Answer 23

Wordsworth

Question 24

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

Answer 24

Coleridge

Question 25

You see a little muddy pond
Of water, never dry;
I’ve measured it from side to side:
‘Tis three feet long, and two feet wide

Answer 25

Wordworth

Question 26

But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Answer 26

Pope

Question 27

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,

Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;

Answer 27

Grey

Question 28

I know the man that must hear me;

To him my tale I teach.

Answer 28

Coleridge

Question 29

Hear the voice of the Bard!

Who Present, Past, and Future sees

Answer 29

Blake

Question 30

Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have not been to me,
As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye

Answer 30

Wordsworth

Question 31

“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.”

Answer 31

Dickens

Question 32

It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else’s thorns in addition to his own.”

Answer 32

Dickens

Question 33

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child’s heart.
You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child’s dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child’s belief or a child’s fear.

Answer 33

Dickens

Question 34

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but not all the calculators of the National debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.

Answer 34

Dickens

Question 35

Thou art an Angel. Bless thee, bless thee!

Answer 35

Dickens

Question 36

Coketown lay shrouded in a haze of its own, which appeared impervious to the sun’s rays. You only knew the town was there because you knew there could have been no such sulky blotch upon the prospect without a town. A blur of soot and smoke, now confusedly tending this way, now that way, now aspiring to the vault of Heaven, now murkily creeping along the earth, as the wind rose and fell, or changed its quarter: a dense formless jumble, with sheets of cross light in it, that showed nothing but masses of darkness—Coketown in the distance was suggestive of itself, though not a brick of it could be seen.

Answer 36

Dickens

Question 37

Look how we live, an’ wheer we live, an’ in what numbers, an’ by what chances, an’ wi’ what sameness; and look how the mills is awlus a-goin’, and how they never works us no nigher to onny distant object-‘ceptin awlus Death. Look how you considers of us, and writes of us, and talks of us, and goes up wi’ your deputations to Secretaries o’ State ‘bout us, and how yo are awlus right, and how we are awlus wrong, and never had’n no reason in us sin ever we were born. Look how this ha’ growen an’ growen sir, bigger an’ bigger, broader an’ broader, harder an’ harder, fro year to year, fro generation unto generation. Who can look on’t sir, and fairly tell a man ‘tis not a muddle?

Answer 37

Dickens

Question 38

“What do I know, father,’ said Louisa in her quiet manner, ‘of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that part of my nature in which such light things might have been nourished? What escape have I had from problems that could be demonstrated, and realities that could be grasped?’ As she said it, she unconsciously closed her hand, as if upon a solid object, and slowly opened it as though she were releasing dust or ash.”

Answer 38

Dickens

Question 39

“At these moments I took refuge in the most perfect solitude. I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.”

Answer 39

Shelley

Question 40

Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.”

Answer 40

Shelley

Question 41

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?”

Answer 41

Shelley

Question 42

It’s no use going back to yesterday. I was a different person then.

Answer 42

Carroll

Question 43

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
“I don’t much care where –”
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”

Answer 43

Carroll

Question 44

“I don’t think…” then you shouldn’t talk, said the Hatter.”

Answer 44

Carroll

Question 45

“I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”

Answer 45

Carroll

Question 46

“And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?”

Answer 46

Carroll